well, the stage is now set for a potential presidential rematch. president biden has officially launched his re-election bid. he says the battle for the nation s soul as he s described it is not over, and he s ready to take on so-called maga extremists. and a new threat in war torn sudan. one of the warring factions seizing a laboratory in khartoum. samples of polio, measles, and cho cholera potentially exposed. and officials are warning a germ bomb could be released on the already devastated capital city. and parts of the midwest could see the worst flooding in 20 years here in the coming days. earlier than expected snow melt is pushing the mississippi river closer to cresting in parts of iowa, minnesota, and wisconsin. what this means for some of the major crops that americans depend on from those areas. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. four years to the day after he launched his 2020 president
putin. well, if that would be the case that we join, what my response would be is that you caused this. look at the mirror. back in the u.s., a milestone almost unthinkable just a few years ago. 1 million americans have died of covid. the president ordering flags lowered to half staff in a country changed forever. we are also learning more today about this amazing story involving nerves of steel and an emergency landing soft as a willow. what happened minutes before a passenger had no choice but to take controls. let s begin with finland s decision to pursue nato membership. nic, is there any doubt that nato would rush to approve finland s application? they ve already given them a green light, if you will. nato secretary general today said that they will be warmly welcomed. there s been a lot going on behind the scenes in brussels at nato head quarters. a lot of conversations between different nations. and all of it coming to the same point. if finland joins nato whic
jean is covering this story for us. how unusual a move is this, jean? reporter: this is very unusual. to have a witness for the defense, someone the defense is saying we want them to testify at the preliminary hearing. remember this roommate we haven t heard from at all, in the probable cause affidavit we heard about the other roommate she bumped into someone all in black, walked toward her, she froze, he turned around and he left. but this is the roommate who was on the first floor, who we never heard anything from and still haven t. but the magistrate judge who is going to be presiding at the preliminary hearing of brian kohberger at the end of june has sent an order to nevada, where she lives, ordering her to come to idaho that week of the
declared to be more than 2.2 million rubles a year, less than $175,000, yet navalny s report calculated the couple spent more than a quarter of a million dollars in just one summer. cnn has not been able to independently verify those numbers. how is he funding this lifestyle? well, the answer is corruption, corruption and specifically kickbacks. reporter: according to the russian government he oversees construction for russia s ministry of defense including what the anti-corruption foundation describes as lucrative contracts to rebuild the ukrainian city of mare yoepal which fell to russian forces under punishing bombardment last may. the russian forces have destroyed, demolished 70% of the apartment blocks in town. they had to build new one and they did. so that company that built displayhouses in mariupol were